High Ercall Hall near Shrewsbury was one of the last Royalist garrisons in Shropshire to hold out. Its resistance into 1646, even after Naseby had destroyed the Royalist main army and Shrewsbury had fallen, illustrates the tenacity of committed Royalist garrisons. Such houses became isolated islands of Royalism as Parliament consolidated control around them. The siege was part of the final chapter of the war in the Welsh Marches.
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